Original Message

AMTs are the next department that has a workgroup reviewing and making what I foresee as very similar adjustments in pay. Unfortunately, they couldn't just do all departments together. Rest assured AMTs are next and based on the staffing shortages, I would be very surprised if they didn't walk away with something similar. Other department will follow suit.

Personally, I probably would have started with the AMTs but both departments were in need of realignment and staffing shortages are present in all departments anyway.

Let the pilot pay practice changes give you a glimpse into what's coming for other departments. They are not about to short change as they know the blowback will be big and the goal is to stop attrition by bringing up pay to be more than competitive. It's clear GMR is hedging that the cost offsets are a large reduction in attrition which lowers training/onboarding costs and a large reduction is flights lost due to staffing. Cut those by increasing pay significantly, GMR is probably only increasing operating cost slightly in the end.